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Homes vs. Condos

S&P/Case-Shiller Home Prices Indices cover condominiums in five markets as well as single family homes in 20 cities.  The table compares the boom-bust and recovery results for homes and condominiums in the five cities — Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston and New York.   The overall performance is similar between homes and condos but there [...]

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Rebounding Foreclosures Threaten Home Price Gains in One-Third of Major Metros

Last week’s S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices report showed strong positive gains in home prices, but those positive gains are threatened by rebounding foreclosure activity in about one-third of the 20 markets tracked in the report. First the good news. Nineteen of the 20 metro areas tracked in the home price report registered positive year-over-year increases [...]

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Home Prices Closed Out a Strong 2012 According to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices

Data through December 2012, released today by S&P Dow Jones Indices for its S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, showed that all three headline composites ended the year with strong gains. The national composite posted an increase of 7.3% for 2012. The 10- and 20-City Composites reported annual returns of [...]

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Home Prices Extend Gains According to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices

Data through November 2012, released today by S&P Dow Jones Indices for its S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, showed home prices rose 4.5% for the 10-City Composite and 5.5% for the 20-City Composite in the 12 months ending in November 2012. S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices ─ November 2012

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Sustained Recovery in Home Prices According to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices

Data through October 2012, released today by S&P Dow Jones Indices for its S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, showed home prices rose 4.3% in the 12 months ending in October in the 20-City Composite, out-distancing analysts’ forecasts. Anticipated seasonal weakness appeared as twelve of the 20 cities and both Composites posted [...]

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Tiered pricing revisited

S&P Dow Jones Indices publishes tiered price data for 16 of the 20 cities (MSAs) we cover. The tier breakpoints are price levels that divide monthly sales pairs into thirds in each MSA. With the recent good news about home prices, there has been some discussion as to where the improvement has been concentrated. As [...]

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Four consecutive monthly increases in condo prices

July 2012 data for the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices were released on Tuesday September 25th, showing the fourth consecutive monthly increase in condo prices in all five of the metro areas covered by our indices – Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco. It would have been the fifth had Chicago prices not [...]

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Condo prices increase across all five cities

June 2012 data for the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices were released on Tuesday August 28th, revealing the third consecutive monthly increase in condo prices in all five of the metro areas covered by our indices – Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco. It would have been the fourth had Chicago prices not fallen [...]

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Condo price increase across all five cities largely mimic their home price counterparts

May 2012 data for the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices were released on Tuesday July 31st, with monthly increases in condo prices in all five of the metro areas covered by our indices – Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco. All five cities saw increases in both condo and existing home prices in [...]

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Tiered price patterns differ across regions

S&P Dow Jones Indices publishes tiered price data for 16 of the 20 cities (MSAs) it covers. The tier breakpoints are price levels that divide monthly sales pairs into thirds in each MSA. Home price trends within these cities do not behave the same across and within the tiers. To follow are a few examples [...]

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